WNET New York Public Media
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Why do some animals build structures and others don't? And how do animals decide where to build? Animal homes need to be safe and secure, protection from predators and the weather. Going above ground and under, viewers will investigate just what goes into making a home for a wild animal when cost is not a factor.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Hear the stories of the men and women who are at the forfront of the medical frontier... Correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was critically injured while covering the war in Iraq in 2006 and was saved by the advances in military medical care, brings his personal understanding of the issues to this documentary as he covers military medical advances and technology from the battlefield to the return home" -- container.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Harpy eagles are the most powerful birds of prey in the world. Standing three feet tall, with a six-foot wingspan and razor-sharp talons the size of bear claws, these birds are the heavyweight hunters of the South American rainforest. But scientists know very little about harpy eagles because their numbers are few, their habitat is large, they never soar above the trees, and they rarely come to the ground. Nature enters their secret world with wildlife...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follow the epic journey of wildlife conservationist and bear biologist Chris Morgan as he travels by motorcycle across Alaska while filming the PBS Nature documentary Bears of the Last Frontier. From thick forests to the icy arctic, his immersion into the bears' world reveals, as never witnessed before, an astonishingly intimate portrait of North America's three bear species: brown bears, black bears, and polar bears.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created...